If you are like me and love to keep up with the latest news in the Database, SQL and Cloud world, this is your place. Here is a short list of the blogs posts that got my attention during the past week. I hope you like them!

Hybrid Cloud Replication for MySQL for High Availability: “Hybrid environments, where a part of the database infrastructure is located on-prem and some of it is located in a public cloud are not uncommon. There may be different reasons to use such setup – scalability, flexibility, high availability, disaster recovery. How to implement this setup in a proper way? This might be challenging as you have to consider several pieces of a puzzle that have to fit together. This blog is intended to give you some insights into how such a setup may look like.”

The Dilemma of DBAs: “Some of us may become architects. Some of us may be known as Site Reliability Engineers, Data Engineers, and some of us may be still called  Database Administrators. I believe the DBAs are never strictly doing database administration work. DBA work involves bit of several tasks including programming, automating, research on network and hardware issues.”

The Most Important Skills for an SRE, DBRE, or DBA: “I have talked extensively about the DBA’s evolving role and how many DBA’s and operations professionals are now becoming SRE’s (site reliability engineers) or DBRE’s (database reliability engineers). Often, databases get blamed as the bottleneck for application slowdowns and issues, so DBAs have had to develop the skills needed to chase problems up and down the stack over the years. This full-stack approach to hunting out problems has resulted in many former DBAs and Sysadmins successfully taking on the role of an SRE/DBRE. The question is, then, what are the most critical skills for this important role?“

Orchestrating database refreshes for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora: “The database refresh process consists of recreating of a target database using a consistent data copy of a source database, usually done for test and development purposes. […]. However, database administrators may need to run some post-refresh activities such as data masking or password changes, or they may need to orchestrate multiple refreshes because they manage several databases, each of them with more than one environment. […] In this post, we describe the features of a serverless solution that you can use to perform database refresh operations at scale, with a higher level of automation.”

And this is it. I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I did. Have a nice weekend and keep yourself healthy!